I spent all my cache before xmas.

I think he is referring to the icon thing above.

We need to teach Adrian how to use the quote button. Anyway, I just sat down at my home PC for the first time since the forum upgrade. I had the old style balance scale icon. Refreshing the cache deleted the old balance scale, and now I have the new devil-dog bug-eyed red buttons. It will happen on it's own soon enough, but deleting your cache will do it now.

 

It saves parts of the sites you visit to make them load quicker.

In the example of you not seeing the new icons for a day or two, it was because the old images would have been in your cache (saved on your computer), and not drawing it from our server.
After some time the cache (depends on what settings you have in your browser) will delete itself and/or you can bypass it by doing a "hard" refresh, as mentioned

 

I had a hard refresh in the past - it was directly attributed to a smart-azzed remark I made to my father.


Thanks Adrian

 

And furthermore, on the icons:


They are actually a heart (spread the love) and an exclamation point. But my tired old eyes can't see that without blowing them up. So they do make sense, if you can see them. Maybe they just need to be bigger, for us chronologically challenged members, or maybe I should just shut up about it since no one else seems to care.

 

I can't see them either, Bill.

It'll be just my luck to report someone's post when I meant to rep 'em.

Modern problems....

Pop

 

Just got home and check my computer and still had the original icons UNTIL I held down the control key and hit the F5 button. Thank you very much!

 

That Adrian knows stuff!!

 

Gee I would say so.

 

There seemed to be some confusion regarding cache files, and how to clear them, so I will add a little info.

The CTRL-F5 function that Adrian mentioned works great, but it only refreshes the images and text which are used on the page you are currently viewing. For example, I used the CTRL-F5 while viewing this thread on another PC, and it did correct the reputation button that we were discussing. But when I went back to the forum listing page, it did not yet have the blue check boxes that Steve mentioned above. The items cached for that page had not been refreshed. You can do a CTRL-F5 on each page, but it would be better to just do it all at once.

In general in Internet Explorer, if you are not seeing the things that you think you should be seeing, or if a page is not refreshing and you believe it should change, you should clear your browser cache.

I prefer to bypass the CTRL-F5 function, and just clear the entire cache at once. To do so, I close IE completely, go to the Control Panel, choose Internet Options, General tab, and near the middle of the window in the Browsing History area, click the Delete button. Here you can choose to delete Temporary Internet Files, which is IE terminology for the cache. You can also delete cookies, history, forms data, and passwords. But for this discussion all we care about is the Temp Files. Just click the Delete Files button, and it may take a few minutes to delete them all. IE tends to use an excessive amount of disk space in my opinion, so it sometimes takes a while to finish.

You can reach the same Internet Options tab from within IE, by just going to the Tools menu, and then Internet Options. But my preference is to do it with IE closed, so I go the Control Panel route.

So, if you are having any problems viewing all the new icons here at FTE, try the above.

I am using Windows XP SP3, and IE 7. Some of this will look a little different in other IE versions, and also different in other browsers, but the concept is the same.

I hope this helps.

 

Good info, Bill.

I didn't know that cache and temporary internet files are the same thing.

 

They are - one is just the geek word for it